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Well… you know, if you have a farm, there’s options other than soy beans.
You know how much specialized farming equipment costs? That's like you owning a plumbing business and the government then screwing over your business somehow and someone going, well, you can always just start a electrician business. Like, sure you have some basic tools that might crossover, but it's an entirely different field that you know nothing about. There's significant risk as you know very little about that new crop, you may not have connections for distribution, you might not be scaled correctly to handle the nutrient or water needs. It requires extensive planning and if you fuck up one thing in that crop (i.e. you now have a weird blight or mildew or destructive animal you never planned for), you could be properly fucked.
In that case it might have been smart to listen to the person they were going to vote for and to believe what he was promising to do.
But voting for Mr "I'm gonna kill farming in the USA" and then complaining that he killed farming in the USA is kinda weak.
You can't seriously believe they knew anything about what he was going to do. Despite it being published and mocked and criticized and the topic of conversation for months.
Yeah, who could have known that he seriously meant what he was saying for years.
Specialization is a specific kind of business risk that these farms accepted years ago.
You can lower your production cost, but at the risk of having all of your eggs in one basket. Crop diversification requires more equipment, more expertise, and potentially lower yields, but it reduces exposure to problems facing a single crop.
These farmers took that risk knowing that last time this happed Trump bailed them out. They had every reason to think it would happen again.
The risk of hyperspecialization. Of course it's devastating, if your entire farm is tailored to that one crop.